Muslim then also recorded it (1/75), as did Aḥmad (4/312), through two other chains from al-Ḥasan, with similar wording.
Note: This chain of transmission contains an important point that I have not seen anyone draw attention to. Indeed, some books state what contradicts it. In his biographical entry on al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, Ibn Abī Ḥātim related from his father that he heard from a number of the Companions but did not hear from a number of others. Abū Ḥātim said:
“His having heard directly from Jundub has not been established.”
Al-Ḥāfiẓ reported this from him in Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb and endorsed it! Yet al-Mizzī refuted it in his original work, Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, by citing al-Ḥasan’s explicit statement of narration in this chain of transmission.
It seems that this chain—or, at the very least, these chains—did not come to their attention: chains authentically reported from al-Ḥasan in which he explicitly states that he heard from Jundub, reinforcing this with his words, “in this mosque …”
There are other hadiths in which al-Ḥasan, may Allah have mercy on him, explicitly states that he heard from Jundub, may Allah be pleased with him, such as the hadith in al-Ṭabarānī’s Muʿjam (no. 1660).
The hadith under discussion has previously appeared under no. 1485. *
3014—(1. “As the time draws near, the Muslim’s dream will scarcely be false.
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The truest of them in dreams are those most truthful in speech.
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The Muslim’s dream is one of forty-six parts of prophethood.”
He also said: